Honors Economics Project: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes
In this project, the student will construct a 30-slide keynote presentation explaining and comparing the respective economic theories of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes.
In the presentation, each presentation must contain, at aminimum, the following information:
Brief biographical sketch of each economic thinker
Identify the major writings of Smith, Marx, and Keynes
In-depth description of each man's basic ideas
Compare and contrast the economic system each man developed
Use both images and text
This project is for 1st and 3rd Blocks, Fall 2015
Evolution of Jihadist Warfare and Terrorism, 2014-2015
Instructions: Each student will create a 25 slide keynote presentation chronicling the story of Jihadist warfare from January 3, 2014 to the present. In this project, the student will use images and text to tell the story of Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq and Syria, plus Boko Haram in Nigeria. Students should also provide coverage of the Charlie Hebdo Massacre in France (January 7, 2015 to Present).
The links below will provide each student with an abundance of material, particularly material on the rise of ISIS, plus the Charlie Hebdo Massacre. There is less material on Boko Haram in the links below, so students will need to do some independent research. Also, you may include other Jihadist-related stories in 2014-2015 that were not referred to above.
Keep in mind that this project involves an understanding of intense religious belief, plus the reality of human violence and death. Please be tasteful in your work, but also be accurate, honest, and direct.
Lastly, at the end of your project, give your opinion as to how the United States government should respond (or not respond) to these problems.
You will have several days to work on this. I have not set a due date yet. You will turn in your project to me electronically, preferably be email.
The American Story From 2008 to Early 2015 Instructions: Each student will create two Keynote presentations chronicling the American story from 2008 through the early months of 2015. Each Keynote presentation should be 25 slides inlength. Please do not include audio or video.
Your first Keynote should cover the years 2008 up to May 1, 2011 (The Killing of Osama Bin Laden). Your second Keynote should begin in the summer of 2011 and continue through the early months of 2015 (If you like, you could end with Super Bowl XLIX on February 1, 2015).
In terms of subject matter, your focus should be on the United States, particularly political and governmental events. Definitely cover the presidential elections of 2008 and 2012. Definitely cover the economic crash of 2008.
While the United States should be your focus, you should bring in events outside the United States when you determine that such international events were particularly relevant to the United States.
Have some fun with this. Be creative. You can cover music, culture, entertainment, and sports as well. But make it balanced in terms of subject matter.
Keep this in mind: This is a government class, so political events should play a prominent role in your story-telling.
Congress, the Presidency, and How a Bill Becomes a Law Like the last project, this assignment will involve two parts. The first part of your assignment will be to create a 20-slide (or more) presentation on Congress and the Presidency. USE BOTH PICTURES AND TEXT! Oh yeah…you can use charts and graphs as well.
In Part I, your slidepresentation should include information on the following:
The Bicameral Nature of the Congress (House of Representatives and Senate)
How seats in the House of Representatives are Apportioned
The Speaker of the House
Qualifications to be a member of the House of Representatives
How seats in the U.S. Senate are apportioned
Qualifications to be a member of the U.S. Senate
The Role of the 17th Amendment in the elections of the U.S. Senate
What are some of the powers of the U.S. Congress?
In the most basic sense, what does Congress do?
What are the Constitutional powers of the President of the United States?
What are the qualifications to be President of the United States?
What do Congress and the President do together?
How can a President be removed from office?
Who is the current President of the United States?
Who is the current Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives?
Who is the current Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate?
Who is the current President of the U.S. Senate?
In Part II, explain the steps that are taken in passing a bill into law. Explain it step-by-step. Part II should be 20 slides, or more. In your presentation, include information on the following:
What is a bill?
What is a reading of a bill?
In order to a bill to be passed out of Congress, what must the House and Senate each do?
What is a Congressional committee?
What does a Congressional committee do?
What things can a committee do to a bill?
To pass either the House or the Senate, what kind of vote is needed? (Basically, what is a majority vote?)
In the Senate, what is a filibuster?
What is a Presidential veto?
What is a Pocket Veto?
How can Congress override a presidential veto?
Use the keynote presentations below to help you get started. But do some research of your own!
Economics Project:Basics Economics and the Joy of Pessimism In this project, the student will create a 25-slide keynote presentation surveying introductory principles of the academic discipline of economics. The keynote presentation should include the following:
What is a good working definition of economics?
What is the concept of scarcity?
In economics, what is the relationship between wants and dissatisfaction?
Do human beings ever conquer scarcity and dissatisfaction?
In what song do the Rolling Stones capture the problem of scarcity?
In a sense, human beings are doomed to a life of what?
What is wealth?
Why is money not the same thing as wealth?
Why is it true that all people die in a state of poverty?
What is the concept of cost?
What is the concept of opportunity cost?
Why is there no such thing as a free lunch?
What are the factors of production?
What are some examples of factors of production in our world?
How do the "Three Basic Questions of Economics" play out in our world?
What is utility?
What is value?
What is price?
Explain the paradox of value
Why is it valid to say that economics is the "dismal science?"
Why would Eeyore probably like economics?
Use both text and images in your presentation!
Above: Arthur Schopenhauer, 19th century philosopher and pessimist; Larry David, creator of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm, infamous curmudgeon and pessimist; Eeyore, notorious pessimist; The Rolling Stones, a rock-and-roll band famous for many a pessimistic song
Economics Project:Stock Market Basics
Part I Instructions: Students will create a 25-slide keynote presentation explaining basic principles concerning corporations and the stock market. Student keynotes should answer the following questions:
What is a corporation?
What is a proprietorship, as compared to a corporation?
Why might a business creator prefer to have his/her business in the form of a corporation? (Hint: the need to raise large amounts of capital, and limited liability)
What is a share of stock?
What is a dividend?
What is a shareholder?
In terms of being a shareholder, what's the advantage of limited liability?
What is an IPO (Initial Public Offering)?
What is a stock market?
What is a stock market symbol for a corporation? (Give some examples of well-known companies)
What are the two major ways in which a shareholder can make money from investing in stocks? (Hint: Dividends and Speculation)
In terms of investing in stocks, what is speculation? (Hint: Buying low and selling high)
What does a stock broker do?
What is a Bull Market?
What is a Bear Market?
What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average?
The First 102 Days of 2015 This project is to be completed by Thursday, April 16, 2015. It will count as a test grade.
Basically, this assignment is a current events assignment. Each student is to create a 25-slide presentation identifying and explaining the highlights of the first 102 days (January 1st through April 12th) of the year 2015. You have a great deal of latitude in this presentation. Feel free to use chronicle that I've been compiling since the beginning of the year. The links are below:
You do NOT have to use only the information that i have provided. To put it another way, feel free to use information that you find online that meets the criteria for this assignment.
In terms of identifying the highlights of the first 102 days of 2015, make sure that you include events pertaining to economics (e.g. jobs, stock market), politics, andworld events.
But feel free to include information about cultural events such as sports and entertainment. In short, have some fun with the assignment. This is your senior year in high school, and one of the goals of the assignment is to give you a better familiarity with major events of the year (up to this point) in which you graduated high school.
Student Projects
Honors Economics Project: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes
In this project, the student will construct a 30-slide keynote presentation explaining and comparing the respective economic theories of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes.
In the presentation, each presentation must contain, at a minimum, the following information:
This project is for 1st and 3rd Blocks, Fall 2015
Evolution of Jihadist Warfare and Terrorism, 2014-2015
Instructions: Each student will create a 25 slide keynote presentation chronicling the story of Jihadist warfare from January 3, 2014 to the present. In this project, the student will use images and text to tell the story of Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq and Syria, plus Boko Haram in Nigeria. Students should also provide coverage of the Charlie Hebdo Massacre in France (January 7, 2015 to Present).
The links below will provide each student with an abundance of material, particularly material on the rise of ISIS, plus the Charlie Hebdo Massacre. There is less material on Boko Haram in the links below, so students will need to do some independent research. Also, you may include other Jihadist-related stories in 2014-2015 that were not referred to above.
Keep in mind that this project involves an understanding of intense religious belief, plus the reality of human violence and death. Please be tasteful in your work, but also be accurate, honest, and direct.
Lastly, at the end of your project, give your opinion as to how the United States government should respond (or not respond) to these problems.
You will have several days to work on this. I have not set a due date yet. You will turn in your project to me electronically, preferably be email.
Chronicle of 2014, Part I
Chronicle of 2014, Part II
Chronicle of 2014, Part III
Chronicle of January 2015
The American Story From 2008 to Early 2015
Instructions: Each student will create two Keynote presentations chronicling the American story from 2008 through the early months of 2015. Each Keynote presentation should be 25 slides in length. Please do not include audio or video.
Your first Keynote should cover the years 2008 up to May 1, 2011 (The Killing of Osama Bin Laden). Your second Keynote should begin in the summer of 2011 and continue through the early months of 2015 (If you like, you could end with Super Bowl XLIX on February 1, 2015).
In terms of subject matter, your focus should be on the United States, particularly political and governmental events. Definitely cover the presidential elections of 2008 and 2012. Definitely cover the economic crash of 2008.
While the United States should be your focus, you should bring in events outside the United States when you determine that such international events were particularly relevant to the United States.
Have some fun with this. Be creative. You can cover music, culture, entertainment, and sports as well. But make it balanced in terms of subject matter.
Keep this in mind: This is a government class, so political events should play a prominent role in your story-telling.
Use the lengths below as you see fit:
Chronicle of the Years 2000-2009
Chronicle of the Years 2010-2013
2014, Part 1
2014, Part 2
2014, Part 3
2015, January
2015, February
Congress, the Presidency, and How a Bill Becomes a Law
Like the last project, this assignment will involve two parts. The first part of your assignment will be to create a 20-slide (or more) presentation on Congress and the Presidency. USE BOTH PICTURES AND TEXT! Oh yeah…you can use charts and graphs as well.
In Part I, your slide presentation should include information on the following:
In Part II, explain the steps that are taken in passing a bill into law. Explain it step-by-step. Part II should be 20 slides, or more. In your presentation, include information on the following:
Use the keynote presentations below to help you get started. But do some research of your own!
Economics Project:Basics Economics and the Joy of Pessimism
In this project, the student will create a 25-slide keynote presentation surveying introductory principles of the academic discipline of economics. The keynote presentation should include the following:
Use both text and images in your presentation!
Above: Arthur Schopenhauer, 19th century philosopher and pessimist; Larry David, creator of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm, infamous curmudgeon and pessimist; Eeyore, notorious pessimist; The Rolling Stones, a rock-and-roll band famous for many a pessimistic song
Economics Project:Stock Market Basics
Part I Instructions: Students will create a 25-slide keynote presentation explaining basic principles concerning corporations and the stock market. Student keynotes should answer the following questions:
The First 102 Days of 2015
This project is to be completed by Thursday, April 16, 2015. It will count as a test grade.
Basically, this assignment is a current events assignment. Each student is to create a 25-slide presentation identifying and explaining the highlights of the first 102 days (January 1st through April 12th) of the year 2015. You have a great deal of latitude in this presentation. Feel free to use chronicle that I've been compiling since the beginning of the year. The links are below:
January 2015
February 2015
March 2015
April 2015
You do NOT have to use only the information that i have provided. To put it another way, feel free to use information that you find online that meets the criteria for this assignment.
In terms of identifying the highlights of the first 102 days of 2015, make sure that you include events pertaining to economics (e.g. jobs, stock market), politics, and world events.
But feel free to include information about cultural events such as sports and entertainment. In short, have some fun with the assignment. This is your senior year in high school, and one of the goals of the assignment is to give you a better familiarity with major events of the year (up to this point) in which you graduated high school.
1st Block, Spring Semester, 2015
Trent Brown
Shavon Crooks
Tavon Crooks
Dustin DeVan
Billy Dumas
Brandon Emmons
Lauren Fenner
Makalia Finklea
Malik Gaines
Kristen Gilbreath
April Godwin
Kiarim Henry
Anthony Hopkins
Dustin Langham
Dillion Odom
Caroline Oestriecher
Breanna Paul
Darrel Robinson
Tiara Rostchild
J.T. Salter
Blaine Shiver
Willie Stoudmire
Tammy Jo Thompson
Jacob Vernon
Briana Washington
Norman Washington
Karley Wilson
Matthew Wilson
2nd Block, Spring Semester, 2015
Robert Andreoli
John Banning
Tabatha Black
Jessica Bradley
Christopher Brock
Chrissy Crutchfield
Jennieceia Cunningham
Brett Daniel
Brian Earls
Lance Edwards
Chynna Finch
Austin Garner
Kadavia Green
Amy Jeffers
Rebecca Lankford
Elizabeth Long
Matthew McClain
Donald Newton
Savannah Nichols
Laura Owen
Sara Peacock
Bethany Presley
Erin Rider
Maraina Ridlehoover
Madeline Sellers
Cory Steadham
Will Steele
Megan Tolbert
Olivia Turner
Mallory Wallace
Mason Waters
DiAnton White
Payt Zarr
Jennifer Zavala
4th Block, Spring Semester, 2015
LaQuinton Anderson
Melquan Ankum
Devin Atkinson
Jessica Berryman
Austin Bruneau
Renn Bryars
Mattye Crowder
Chaynce Eady
Precious Grace
MicTavious Green
Keenan Henry
Logan Koseicki
Reece Marx
James McMillan
Rondale Salter
Haleigh Snow
Marquinton Snowden
Emily Thompson
Tondaliayh Tunstall
Carley White